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Oregon's others : gender, civil liberties, and the surveillance state in the early twentieth century

Title
Oregon's others : gender, civil liberties, and the surveillance state in the early twentieth century / Kimberly Jensen.
ISBN
9780295752570
0295752572
9780295752587
0295752580
9780295752594
Publication
Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : University of Washington Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
xv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
"In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy "others," combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. In Oregon's Others, Kimberly Jensen analyzes the processes that shaped the growing surveillance state of the era and the compelling personal stories that tell its history. The exclusionary and invasive practices ranged from multiple wartime registrations for women and the registration of "enemy aliens" to the incarceration of women with sexually transmitted diseases, the use of deportations, and forced sterilization at the Oregon State Hospital and other institutions. But some Oregonians resisted the restrictions and challenges to their civil liberties. Their fierce determination to maintain their rights and freedoms fueled movements for human rights, social justice, and dissent that still reverberate today. Oregon's Others examines the collision of civil liberties and persecution through the lens of gender, gender identity and presentation, ability, race, ethnicity, and class"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Jensen, Kimberly, 1958- Oregon's others Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest ; University of Washington Press, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2024
Series
Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Eugenics and internal enemy others
Patriotic womanhood and internal enemies
Trouble at work
"Alien" enemies
Held for health
"Insane" or "unfit"
Japanese Oregonian women's resistance.
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